Here is the second part of the interview I completed with Shelly Mazzanoble. Enjoy! 8: After visiting your personal website, it seemed to me that you’ve always been highly creative. What do you think lead to your creative flow? Does this creative flow that you harbor help you during a game? Thank you! If you [...]
Being a playwright, author and overall creative persona are just pieces of what makes up the ever-entertaining Shelly Mazzanoble, whom I had the privilege of interviewing this past week! Shelly is the Associate Brand Marketing Manager for Dungeons & Dragons. She is also the author of “Confessions of a Part Time Sorceress”, the book that [...]
In a recent article on Campaign Mastery, Johnn speaks to Mike about languages in your role-playing game, and their importance. You really should read it. It’s very in-depth and fascinating. In general, I don’t put too much emphasis on languages. I’ll occasionally throw in a character who only speaks Elvish so only a few characters can speak to them, but [...]
We’ve all seen it before. Sometimes, you’ll be playing with someone and when it comes around to their turn, this happens. And eventually, you do this. You know what I mean? The other night at board game night, this exact situation happened. We were playing Timbuktu, and one of the players froze. Now, the game [...]
Yes, that’s right! We’re going to tell you exactly where we’ll be! (Note there are a lot of board games here. We actually play a lot of board games here at home, so we’re happy to get out there and play some we’ve never tried before.) Let’s start with Friday, our first day there. We’re [...]
I’m a firm believer that a player should have more on-hand than just their character sheet. They shouldn’t have to bring in a tub of stuff for their character, but it pays to come prepared. On episode 12 of RPG Circus, we talked about the Player’s Notebook, and what it should include. Here’s what I would include if [...]
Listening to Fear the Boot recently got me thinking about an interesting adventuring party concept: the travelling show. Everyone’s gotta remember the part of Dragons of Spring Dawning in which Raistlin puts on a magic show. It was one of my favorite parts of that book. Jim Darkmagic is also known to occasionally put on entertaining magic shows as well. This [...]
I’ve actually been up to quite a bit in the last week or so. Here’s the breakdown: Dungeon Tiles As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve begun collecting Dungeon Tiles, and have a tub filled with them now. I’m looking forward to getting back to playing some D&D so I can whip these out and [...]
I’m beginning to gather more and more Dungeon Tiles as the weeks go on. Two weeks ago, I picked up the Harrowed Halls, and yesterday I went over to Unique Gifts and Games and picked up the Arcane Towers set. Thus far, I’ve got about 6 or 7 of the sets. I’ve been told I [...]
One horrifying artifact from older editions of D&D was the Deck of Many Things, an object of supreme power that could either shape or destroy campaigns on a whim. For those of you who are new to D&D via 4e, here’s basically what it is: Basically, a deck of cards which grant you different boons [...]
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